X-Git-Url: http://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/blobdiff_plain/a65af9c072fc1a657c564ed65d0c2319db86ab4b..c1c5c06dc3dec634ff0dbda889f357f9e5b582e7:/README diff --git a/README b/README index edc0125a68..a0bc92d58d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,28 +1,34 @@ -This directory tree holds version 21.0.101 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, +Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 + Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end of the file for license conditions. + + +This directory tree holds version 22.1.50 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. -You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report -them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since -they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or -in code we don't use often. See the file BUGS for more information on -how to report bugs. +The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU +Emacs on various systems, once you have unpacked or checked out the +entire Emacs file tree. See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs. -The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on -various systems, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this -directory. - The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that occur in building, installing and running Emacs. -Reports of bugs in Emacs should be sent to the mailing list -bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs -manual for more information on how to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' -in this directory explains how you can find and read that section -using the Info files that come with Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' -for more information on mailing lists relating to GNU packages. +You may encounter bugs in this release. If you do, please report +them; your bug reports are valuable contributions to the FSF, since +they allow us to notice and fix problems on machines we don't have, or +in code we don't use often. Please send bug reports for released +versions of Emacs sent to the mailing list bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. +Please send bug reports for pretest versions of Emacs, and versions +from the Savannah.gnu.org repository, to emacs-pretest-bugs@gnu.org. + +See the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual for more information on how +to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you +can find and read that section using the Info files that come with +Emacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists +relating to GNU packages. The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU @@ -52,34 +58,55 @@ this script will help you distribute your version to others. There are several subdirectories: -`src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and its - primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions). -`lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else). -`lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by - or with Emacs, like movemail and etags. -`etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files - Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote - database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man' - subdirectories are architecture-independent too. - -`info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs. -`man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the - manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce - an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo - package; you need version 4.0 or later of Texinfo. - - Note that the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual sources are distributed -separately. (They are twice as large as the Emacs Manual in the man -subdirectory.) - -`msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG. -`vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS. -`nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain - to running Emacs on Windows NT. -`mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building - and running Emacs on the Mac. +`src' holds the C code for Emacs (the Emacs Lisp interpreter and + its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing + functions). +`lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for Emacs (most everything else). +`leim' holds the library of Emacs input methods, Lisp code and + auxiliary data files required to type international characters + which can't be directly produced by your keyboard. +`lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or + with Emacs, like movemail and etags. +`etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files + Emacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead + quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `leim', `info', + `man', `lispref', and `lispintro' subdirectories are + architecture-independent too. +`info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs. +`man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual. If you modify the + manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce + an updated manual. `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo + package; you need version 4.2 or later of Texinfo. +`lispref' holds the source code for the Emacs Lisp reference manual. +`lispintro' holds the source code for the Introduction to Programming + in Emacs Lisp manual. + +`msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG. +`vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS. +`nt' holds various command files and documentation files that pertain + to building and running Emacs on Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP. +`mac' holds instructions, sources, and other useful files for building + and running Emacs on the Mac. Building Emacs on non-Posix platforms requires to install tools that aren't part of the standard distribution of the OS. The platform-specific README files and installation instructions should list the required tools. + + +This file is part of GNU Emacs. + +GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) +any later version. + +GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the +Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, +Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.